Managing permissions
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- Last edited 3 years ago by MLR
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Accessing the Permission manager
To manage permissions, you use the Permission manager. It is located under Global actions > Management > Permission manager. This links to the page Special:PermissionManager.
Permission types
An administrator can select between three permission settings. By default, the wiki is set to be private.
| Permission type | Description |
|---|---|
| Protected wiki | The wiki is visible to anyone. Only logged-in users can edit the wiki. |
| Private wiki | Only logged-in users can view and edit the wiki. |
| Custom setup | Roles and groups are assigned by an administrator. |
Custom Setup
Important! If you want to manually manage the permissions in your wiki, you need to be familiar with the concept of groups and roles in the wiki. Please check the necessary info about the BlueSpice Permission manager before assigning roles to groups.
The following user groups and roles are assigned by default when saving the custom setup:
| User group | Initially assigned roles | Purpose of this group | Suggested role |
|---|---|---|---|
| anonymous users (*) | reader | Determines if anonymous users can read wiki content. | (no role assignment) or reader |
| user | reader, editor | Determines the rights authenticated users have if they don't belong to any other groups. | reader or reader, editor |
| autoreview | (inherited from user) | For users whose page revisions are automatically accepted without further approval. | maintenanceadmin (Note: This role has even more rights than the admin role and should be applied carefully.) |
| bot | (inherited from user) | (System group) Used for automated tasks in the wiki. | bot |
| bureaucrat | (inherited from user).
accountmanager |
(System group) | |
| editor | (inherited from user) | Grants edit rights to the wiki. | editor |
| interface-admin | (inherited from user) | ||
| reviewer | (inherited from user),
reviewer |
Grants rights to approve page revisions if the approval feature is activated. | reviewer |
| smwadministrator | (inherited from user) | Automatically created by Semantic MediaWiki extension. | - |
| smwcurator | (inherited from user) | Automatically created by Semantic MediaWiki extension. | - |
| smweditor | (inherited from user) | Automatically created by Semantic MediaWiki extension. | - |
| sysop | (inherited from user),
admin |
Grants administrator rights to the wiki.
Included in roles: admin, maintenanceadmin |
admin |
| widgeteditor | (inherited from user) | Allows editing pages in the Widget: namespace.
Included in roles: admin, maintenanceadmin or structuremanager |
admin or structuremanager |